Shanghai aims to build a leading area for education reform and opening up, and releases heavyweight policies
On the afternoon of September 8th, the 39th Teacher's Day celebration and the first Lingang Education Award ceremony were held in the Lingang New Area of Shanghai Free Trade Zone. The Several Opinions on Accelerating the High Quality Development of Education in the Lingang New Area have been released, starting from the perspectives of education, science and technology, and talent. The opinions include ten opinions, including strengthening basic education construction, exploring the implementation of characteristic education models, promoting the construction of pilot schools for education reform, implementing special incentives for basic education talents, promoting the opening and sharing of social education resources, promoting education opening up and cooperation with the outside world, and promoting the integration of industry and education development.
At the meeting, the Municipal Education Commission signed a strategic agreement with Lingang New Area to jointly build a pilot area for educational reform and opening up; The Lingang New Area Management Committee and Yaozhong Yaohua Education Institution signed a cooperation agreement to jointly build Shanghai Lingang Yaozhong Foreign Children's School; We have signed a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Shanghai Conservatory of Music to jointly build basic education schools. In the future, we will gradually establish multiple high-quality basic education schools in the new area through the model of university affiliated education.
Since the fourth anniversary of the establishment of Lingang New Area, the management committee has adhered to the principle of prioritizing education development, moderately accelerating the construction of education projects, and striving to introduce high-quality basic education resources. At present, 63 primary and secondary schools have been established in the main urban area, as well as 1 Lingang campus of the Shanghai International Department. We are accelerating the construction of 28 ongoing education projects. The group oriented education rate in the compulsory education and preschool education stages has reached 100%. In September of this year, three basic education schools were newly established, including the Middle East High School Department and the Lingang Fengxian Branch of the Second Affiliated Middle School of China Normal University. Gathering excellent educational talents, currently 3 top-level teachers have been introduced and 2 senior teachers have been trained. A new round of basic education talent introduction and training policies will be released soon.
Chen Jinshan, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Lingang New Area, and Director of the Management Committee, attended the event.